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Searching for Jim Gray: a technical overview
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The volunteer search for Jim Gray, lost at sea in 2007, highlights the challenges of computer-aided emergency response.Abstract:
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The future of crowd work
Aniket Kittur,Jeffrey V. Nickerson,Michael S. Bernstein,Elizabeth M. Gerber,Aaron Shaw,John Zimmerman,Matthew Lease,John Horton +7 more
TL;DR: This paper outlines a framework that will enable crowd work that is complex, collaborative, and sustainable, and lays out research challenges in twelve major areas: workflow, task assignment, hierarchy, real-time response, synchronous collaboration, quality control, crowds guiding AIs, AIs guiding crowds, platforms, job design, reputation, and motivation.
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Mitigating Herding in Hierarchical Crowdsourcing Networks.
Han Yu,Chunyan Miao,Cyril Leung,Cyril Leung,Yiqiang Chen,Yiqiang Chen,Simon Fauvel,Victor Lesser,Qiang Yang +8 more
TL;DR: A Lyapunov optimization based decision support approach - the Reputation-aware Task Sub-delegation approach with dynamic worker effort Pricing (RTS-P) - with objective functions aiming to achieve superlinear time-averaged collective productivity in an HCN.
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Understanding and assessing crowd logistics business models – using everyday people for last mile delivery
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the nature and characteristics of crowd logistics business models and propose a new concept for a sustainable implementation of the crowd logistics services, which is based on data from companies operating in Germany.
Human-Computer Interaction and Collective Intelligence
TL;DR: HCI has a long history of studying not only the interaction between individuals with technology, but also the interaction of groups with or mediated by technology, and there are three main vectors of study for HCI and collective intelligence.
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Limits of social mobilization
Alex Rutherford,Manuel Cebrian,Manuel Cebrian,Sohan Dsouza,Esteban Moro,Esteban Moro,Alex Pentland,Iyad Rahwan,Iyad Rahwan +8 more
TL;DR: This work builds on recent results on the spatiotemporal structure of social and information networks to elucidate the constraints they pose on social mobilization and conducts high-resolution simulations for referral-based crowdsourcing and obtains a statistical characterization of the population recruited, geography covered, and time to completion.
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Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
TL;DR: Arguing that privacy concerns should not be limited solely to concern about control over personal information, Helen Nissenbaum counters that information ought to be distributed and protected according to norms governing distinct social context, be it workplace, health care, schools, or among family and friends.
Digitally networked technology in Kenya's 2007-2008 post-election crisis
Joshua Goldstein,Juliana Rotich +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the 2007-2008 Kenyan presidential election crisis illustrates how digital networked technologies, specifically mobile phones and the Internet, were a catalyst to both predatory behavior such as ethnic-based mob violence and to civic behaviors such as citizen journalism and human rights campaigns.
Integration of Coastal Ocean Dynamics Application Radar (CODAR) and Short-Term Predictive System (STPS): Surface Current Estimates into the Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS)
James O'Donnell,David S. Ullman,Malcolm L. Spaulding,Eoin Howlett,Todd Fake,P. S. Hall,Tatsu Isaji,Christopher A. Edwards,Eric J. Anderson,T McClay +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the CODAR-based surface current prediction model (Short-Term Predictive System, STPS) was extended to an existing long-range COCODAR area in the Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB) and upgraded to incorporate the effects of wind forcing.
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Networked Robotic Cameras for Collaborative Observation of Natural Environments
Dezhen Song,Ken Goldberg +1 more
TL;DR: Emerging advances in robot cameras, long-range wireless networking, and distributed sensors make feasible a new class of portable robotic “observatories” that can allow groups of scientists, via the internet, to remotely observe, record, and index detailed animal activity.
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Search survey for S/V Tenacious: Gulf of Farallones and approaches to San Francisco Bay
TL;DR: The search survey for S/V Tenacious, the areas and techniques used in the survey, the findings of the survey and the results and recommendations provided by Fugro Pelagos, Inc are summarized.